State Telecom Activities

摘要

The California Public Utilities Commission on Thursday approved about $4.8 million in fundingrnfor five California Advanced Services Fund projects. Race Telecommunications received about $3.4 millionrnfor a project to extend high-speed Internet service to 42.26 square miles in the city of Boron in KernrnCounty (http://bit.ly/16TjyHF). Ponderosa Telephone Co. received $899,574 to extend its high-speedrnInternet service to 39.04 square miles to the Big Creek, Huntington Lake and Lakeshore communities inrnFresno County (http://bit.ly/1aPiMzI). Pinnacles Telephone Co. received a $195,299 grant for its Pinnacles Monument Project to upgrade broadband service to 47 households in addition to businesses and anchorrninstitutions in a 126.67 square-mile area in San Benito County (http://bit.ly/18Kx3sF). WillitsrnOnline and its subsidiary company, Rural Broadband Now, received a grant to extend Internet service torn19.87 square miles to Westport (http://bit.ly/1cuEwo0). These companies also received a $163,908 grantrnand a $122,931 loan from the Connect America Fund to extend Internet access to 38.48 square miles inrnBoonville in Mendocino County (http://bit.ly/1dyL1Dd).